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    Escape
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    Audiobook6 hours

    Escape

    Written by Perihan Magden

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

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    About this audiobook

    “There are questions like that. Questions that must never be asked. Subjects that must never be brought up.”

    Time passes slowly in the hotel rooms. This is what the daughter thinks. They’ve been moving since the beginning, in and out of hotels, sometimes staying for months, sometimes for a mere hour, but never with luggage, heavy things weighing them down. The mother and daughter are singular, a “Moon Unit,” revolving so far away that no one can touch them. They form attachments to no one, not the pool boy who watches the daughter swim for hours, nor the girl at the front desk who counts the moments she sees the daughter as little good luck charms for her day. They are bound together with a secret language, the beautiful girl loved solely by her mother, who will never ever ever leave her side.

    Prize-winning Turkish novelist and journalist Perihan Magden delivers a heartbreaking meditation on the intense and sometimes isolated love between a mother and daughter against the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    TranslatorKenneth Dakan
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9781469211626
    Escape
    Author

    Perihan Magden

    Born in Istanbul, Perihan Magden has written novels, poetry, and a column in Turkey’s national daily newspaper, Radikal. She is the author of two novels currently available in English, Messenger Boy Murders and 2 Girls, as well as Escape and The Companion. 2 Girls was made into film by director Kutlug Ataman and premiered at the 2005 London Film Festival. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages, including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, and Dutch. She is an honorary member of British PEN and winner of the Grand Award for Freedom of Speech by the Turkish Publishers Association.

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    • 4/5
      “Escape” makes an interesting spin on an “unreliable narrator”. Not only does the reader doubt what is being recounted by “Bambi” – the nickname of one of the main characters of this story…the reader then comes to doubt almost everything that takes place – details as to time, location, actions and details about the characters…everything is in doubt.In addition, there are so many emotional minefields just beneath the surface of this piece…that each page is turned with apprehension. At some point, events in the lives of this mysterious mother and daughter seem sure to come to a disastrous head. Their lives on the run from unknown enemies and secret origins provide a chilling vagueness.“I may have done that sort of thing when I was little. Brought up questions that should never be asked. I didn’t understand Mother well enough, not yet. There are questions like that. Questions that must never be asked. Subjects that must never be brought up.”Where at first it seems as if this is a story about a mother fiercely protecting her daughter from harm…it then becomes clear there is FAR more to it. The mother has given up not only her life for her daughter, but her daughter’s chance at any sort of a normal life. The roles of mother and daughter switch back and forth throughout.“You can depend on me, Mother. There won’t be a single tear in my eye when we leave Fetus and go. I won’t make you regret having let me look after him and love him. But I’ll feel like I’m splitting up inside. I’ll feel a sadness inside, welling, swelling, first in my eyes and nose, then down. I’ll be under a heavy grief I’ve never known.”“I’ll feel all of this and I won’t let you feel any of it.”Even though I do not think it was intentional - the constant use of the term ‘Mother” kept making me think of another super healthy mother/child relationship in “Psycho” – which just added to my sense of dread.In Mother’s words: “I remember how refreshed I’d feel every time I’d hear an ambulance, thinking they were coming to get your grandmother. So relieved that maybe she’d be out of my life. It’s a wearing sound, but strangely comforting: the indifferent shriek of an ambulance carrying evil off to the darkness, where it belongs, forever.”There is something very, very wrong with this mother and daughter. Even after finishing the book, I can’t tell you too much more than that.